“Buzz!”
A burst of urgent sirens sounded in front of the office building of Baolong Group.
Behind the floor-to-ceiling glass indoors, Su Tiannan turned around and looked outside. He saw more than a dozen police cars parked at the door and a group of police officers swarming in.
Inside the hall, the workers who were protesting for compensation simply looked back at the police officers coming in at the door, and continued doing what they were doing without dispersing or panicking.
"Stop shouting!"
"Quiet!"
“…!”
A dozen police officers stepped forward, pointed their batons at the group of workers and shouted.
The hall was quiet. Liu Changming, the chief of the Shengli District Police Department, had a sparse side-parted hairstyle and his hands behind his back. He glanced at everyone with a fierce look on his face, then came to the left and asked Ermao from Changqing Company, "What's the fuss?"
"No, we're not making a fuss." Ermao replied with a grin, "We're here to claim compensation."
"Are you the leader?" Liu Changming asked expressionlessly.
"Haha, why should I be the leader? The workers came here on their own initiative." Ermao pointed at his side and shouted, "Come on, come on, tell the police officer, is there anyone organizing you to come and collect the money?"
"No!"
"We came here on our own! Damn it, the person is dead, and they still don't give us the money. Why?"
“…!”
The noisy shouting echoed in the house incessantly, and it made Liu Changming's head hurt.
"Stop shouting!" a police captain yelled again.
Liu Changming pointed at Ermao and whispered, "You don't have to do this. I'll arrest ten people and interrogate them in isolation. I don't believe we can't find out who organized this! I tell you, if there are disputes and conflicts, you can solve them through legal means. Making a scene will definitely not work! If more than a hundred of you surround their company, how can they work?"
"How they work is still the concern of our police department? If our workers are dead and their families can't survive, will our police department do anything about it?" Ermao replied nonchalantly, then turned around, waved his hands, and shouted at his own people: "Our police department's people are here, if you have grievances, please speak up quickly, opportunities don't wait! ”
"ah!!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a howling sound suddenly rang out in the hall. A bald man who weighed at least 200 pounds slapped his thighs with both hands and jumped over: "My Lord! Director Liu, you are finally here... My second uncle died at a young age, leaving behind a family of three. How are you going to let them live!"
The strong man rushed to Liu Changming, howling, and knelt on the ground. He grabbed Liu Changming's thighs with both hands and began to cry: "Director Liu, you are a high-ranking official, you have to make the decision for us! My second aunt is about to remarry, and there are two children left at home. What should I do? I want to ask you what to do!"
"Let go!" Liu Changming pointed at the other party and shouted in astonishment.
The sturdy man wiped a handful of snot on Liu Changming's trouser leg, but he just wouldn't get up and just kept crying.
Immediately afterwards, four or five old women who had come from nowhere grabbed Liu Changming and cried and howled.
"Stop it, please! Can you stay away from me...!" Liu Changming's hair was messed up by the pulling of four or five people, but he did not dare to push them, nor did he dare to let his police officers control the scene by force, for fear of arousing public anger. He could only negotiate.
For a moment, the hall was in great chaos, with shouting, crying, and protesting sounds all mixed together.
Liu Changming struggled with the bald man for a long time before he managed to get away. He then pointed at Ermao, Su Tiannan, and seven or eight other leaders holding banners and shouting slogans and said, "Take them back to the police station! Quickly!"
There were more than a hundred people in the room, and the Police Department certainly didn't have the ability to take them all away, so Liu Changming could only take the upper-level route and control order.
"Come here and go back with us!" someone pointed at Su Tiannan and said.
"I... What's wrong with me? These people are not from my organization." Su Tiannan replied.
"Did they say it was you who organized it? Why are you in such a hurry? We'll ask you to go back and find out more." The police officer replied with a fierce face.
"Oh, okay." Su Tiannan nodded with a smile.
…
Fifteen minutes later, Su Tiannan, Ermao and a dozen other leaders were summoned and taken away, and the Police Department also left two groups of police officers to maintain order at the scene.
In the legal provisions of Longcheng, the rulings on illegal gatherings and legal marches are relatively vague, because according to the regional policy of District 1, people can gather to express their demands, and as long as they do not cause trouble, they are allowed. However, in the legal provisions of Longcheng Autonomous Municipality, collective activities with more than a certain number of people are suspected of being an extreme gathering and may be subject to detention.
However, detention is only about eight to ten days, and the punishment is not particularly severe. But if it involves a march, it is not a trivial matter. Therefore, the Police Department rarely determines that a specific group of people are illegally gathering, because if it is not handled properly, it will become a mass incident. For this reason, many members of the judicial department have requested to amend this legal provision, but it has never been passed.
…
After Su Tiannan and others were taken to the Shengli District Police Station, an ordinary police officer accused them and shouted, "Squat down against the wall!"
Ermao didn't argue when he heard this. He squatted by the wall very skillfully and chatted with his friends next to him. But when Su Tiannan heard this, he didn't move at all.
"I told you to squat down, didn't you hear me?" the police officer raised his eyebrows and asked.
Su Tiannan looked at the other person: "Why should I squat?! I didn't commit any crime!"
"Hey? Don't you know who you are? What's wrong with asking you to squat?" The police officer pointed at Su Tiannan and cursed.
"I can't squat!" Su Tiannan directly opened the other person's arm: "I didn't commit a crime."
The two looked at each other, and the police officer was silent for a while: "Okay, then you stand!"
Ermao looked at Su Tiannan in surprise and said softly, "It's useless to pay attention to him!"
"It's not a matter of whether it's useful or not." Su Tiannan bent over and sat on a chair: "Don't squat, sit up!"
For Ermao and others, who have been walking on the ground all year round, they instinctively thought that they were in police station and should just squat down if asked. However, Su Tiannan found it hard to accept this.
…
upstairs.
Liu Changming wiped the snot on his trouser legs with a tissue and cursed viciously: "You lowlife!"
"Director, what should we do with those people?"
"Detain him for 23 hours, then release him." Liu Changming yawned and bent over to sit on a chair: "Bring me my paper, ink, brush and inkstone. I have to practice calligraphy."
"good!"
At the same time, a car stopped in front of the Police Department, and Xu Jinbo walked into the hall with three people.
Inside the room, Su Tiannan and others glanced at Xu Jinbo, who also glanced at them with a mocking smile.
Everyone looked at each other for a moment, and Xu Jinbo went directly to the director's office upstairs.
…
Zhanan District.
Su Tianyu held the phone and asked Kong Zhenghui, "Did the police take Tiannan away?"
"right!"
"Okay, then increase the bet! Call another hundred people to Baolong Group, and that's where the hell you're going to stay tonight! Everyone who goes will get subsidies!" Su Tianyu said this and hung up the phone.
The Police Department took the people away, but did not solve the problem. Less than half an hour later, more than a hundred people went to the Baolong Group. Not only was the incident not brought under control, but it became even bigger.
…
Inside the dock workers' union.
Zhang Ming looked at an antique vase, crossed his legs and said, "Bai Shun! Someone from the Regulatory Commission called us and asked us to support Baolong Group. What do you think?!"
When Gu Baishun heard this, he frowned instantly.